ITTI Ongoing Maintenance and Support
Preliminary Report
May 1995
This report gives a short description of the work which is being
carried out by those seven ITTI projects which were successful in
receiving additional funding from UCISA/JISC. The vast majority
of revised products will be available by December `95. Your are
welcome to get in touch with the stated project contacts or
myself if you have an interest in any specific item.
Brian Shields
National Co-ordinator ITTI
dbs@st-andrews.ac.uk
X-Windows Project Jean Ritchie and John Wexler
University of Edinburgh
jean.ritchie@ed.ac.uk
J.Wexler@ed.ac.uk
The workbooks on which the Xwindows System User Course , the
Xwindows System Managers Course and the Motif Program Course are
based have proved suitable for self - paced study purposes.
These workbooks will be modified to:
Reflect network developments
include more concepts
Reflect developments in X-terminal hardware
Include improved examples
Cover the use of X with PC's and Apple Mac's
A WWW page will be produced to give an overview of the various
products and explain how they can be obtained electronically as
Framemaker 4 or Postscript files.
Availability October `95
UNIX Help Project Keith Farvis (Admin)
Univ of Edinburgh
Keith.Farvis@ed.ac.uk
Gavin Inglis (Technical)
Gavin.Inglis@ed.ac.uk
The UNIX Help Product has been widely used in the UK and abroad
and will be updated and improved, in response to the feedback
received over the past year, as follows:-
Product brought up to date with UNIX System V Release 4
Facilitate local customization
Added sections on emacs, usenet News and others
Improved formatting and layout style.
The product will continue to be run on the WWW.
Availability Style and HTML conformance August `95
All other changes December`95
Networking for Technical Staff John Buckett
Univ of Exeter
J.Buckett@exeter.ac.uk
Two of the project's networking courses: Data Communications and
Novell Netware will be updated. The Data Communications Course is
being updated by reducing the coverage of X25 and coloured books
networking and adding new sections on topics such as TCP/IP,
Novell, PC Ethernet drivers and some PC network applications. The
Novell course is undergoing more extensive changes to take
account of increasing use of Netware Version 4 in the academic
community. It is envisaged that the new course will appear in two
forms:
One will be a Netware version 4 conversion course for
those staff with a working knowledge of earlier
versions of Novell Netware.
The second will be a complete Netware Version 4 course
designed for technical staff who have no previous
knowledge of Novell Netware.
The course notes from all these courses will be made available
via the WWW.
Availability Data Communications September `95
Novell Netware December `95
Network Training Materials Jill Foster
Univ of Newcastle
Jill.Foster@newcastle.ac.uk
Margaret Isaacs
Univ of Glasgow
mmi@dcs.gla.ac.uk
The Network Training Materials project is currently producing a
WWW- based self-teaching package which builds on the material
currently in the Network Training Pack. This package will enable
users to teach themselves how to use the Internet. The funding
will enable the project to employ specialized staff to enhance
this package with additional interactivity and to assist with the
interface design.
It is intended to produce both a stand-alone version on disk or
CD-ROM and a networked version available via the WWW.
Availability Core Module by September '95
Hypermedia for the Humanities Marilyn Deegan
Oxford Univ.
marilyn@vax.ox.ac.uk
The book, Hypermedia in the Humanities has had a very large take
up both within and outwith the Humanities community; it will be
republished with title and content to reflect its wider
applicability. Extensive revision of the section on Authoring
Systems will be carried out as will a revision of the
introductory definitions to be less focused on the Humanities.
The entire book will be edited in the light of reviews which have
been received.
It is planned to have the book available in paper form and via
the WWW.
Availability December `95
On Going Support and Development for Authoring Packages
David Baty
Univ. of Dundee
J.D.Baty@dundee.ac.uk
The project aims to provide:-
Information support for CBL developers through the regular
updating of the Using Hypertext and Multimedia product. This
product is essentially a hypertext database of educational
technology information designed for use by beginners and current
developers. Whilst the content is not Guide specific it includes
several useful ``Guide tips''
Ongoing development of the new Guide Toolkit. This is a package
which allows CBL material to be developed quickly and efficiently
as well as providing a simple method for CBL production
A workbook/disk will be produced which illustrates how to
accomplish the integration of Windows programs with Guide using
Visual Basic.
Information on all the project's products will be made available
via the WWW. It is also the intention to make as many of the
products as is feasible available via the WWW.
Availability Updates from October `95 onwards
Intro. to Statistics using MINITAB Sally McClean
Ulster
SI.Mcclean@ulst.ac.uk
The revised product will consist of a computer based tutorial and
associated user documentation. It will cover the use of MINITAB
for Windows features in the production of graphical
representations of data ( e.g. pie chart, bar chart and
scattergram; generation of summary measures of location and
spread; basic tabulation and cross tabulation of data and
measurements of association.
A non-mathematical style of treatment of related theoretical
considerations, including an introduction of data types,
statistical variables and measurement scales.
The products will be delivered via the WWW
Availability December `95
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